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First Free School in Virginia opens
The Syms School, founded in 1635, is the first free school established in America! -
Department of Education is Founded
While changing over the past about 150 years between where in the executive branch it is, as well as its role, the Department of Education was first founded in 1867. -
First Native American Boarding School Founded
There is no specific date I can find online over the schools foundation. However, it marked the start of a dark era in education for Native Americans in the country, stripping them of their culture and values to European-ize them. -
National Education Association forms the Committee of Ten to establish a standard secondary school curriculum
A group who convened to attempt to set a standard curriculum for students in the United States, consisting of major names in education across the country. -
SAT is first administered
The first SAT test administered marks the beginning of an age of Standardized Testing becoming common across the nation. -
Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove (California) School District
The countries first successful school desegregation case, ruling it was against state law to build a second school for only Mexican children. -
Brown V. Board of Education
Major supreme court case ruling segregation of schools was unconstitutional and illegal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jSu8_oeCQU -
Engel v. Vitale
US Supreme court case declaring the practice of school-sponsored prayer as unconstitutional. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXMhE7iukVg -
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 becomes law
A Federal law that outlaws discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities passes. -
Covid-19 Quarantine
Not just affecting education, but the world, the pandemic has created everlasting effects on the current world of education that will have impact in decades to come.